X Faces Second Major Outage This Week Amid Growing Concerns
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), is experiencing its second significant outage this week. Users have reported that both the website and mobile application are either completely inaccessible or intermittently displaying error messages. According to Down Detector, a service that monitors online outages, nearly 80,000 reports of X being down have been logged since approximately 10 a.m. Eastern Time. As of this writing, the platform remains non-operational.
This recent disruption follows an earlier technical issue that occurred earlier in the week, marking the second major service interruption for X in a short span. The timing of these outages coincides with mounting criticism directed at the platform’s integration of Grok, an AI chatbot developed by Musk’s xAI. Grok has been implicated in generating manipulated images, including nonconsensual and explicit content involving women and minors, raising serious ethical and legal concerns.
The current instability of X has reignited discussions about the platform’s operational resilience, especially in light of significant staff reductions following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter in 2022. These layoffs had previously sparked apprehensions regarding the platform’s capacity to maintain normal operations and effectively monitor harmful content. While X has largely remained functional since the acquisition, there have been notable outages over the past year, including a major disruption in March 2025, which Musk attributed to a massive cyberattack. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/elon-musk-says-x-is-down-due-to-cyberattacks/?utm_source=openai))
In May 2025, X users experienced issues with timelines not updating and messages failing to load, which the company attributed to a data center outage. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/x-continues-to-suffer-bugs-following-thursday-outage/?utm_source=openai)) Additionally, in November 2025, a Cloudflare outage impacted X’s accessibility, highlighting the platform’s vulnerability to third-party service disruptions. ([techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/cloudflare-outage-takes-down-x-one-month-after-musk-mocked-aws-customers/?utm_source=openai))
The recent outages and the controversy surrounding Grok have intensified scrutiny of X’s content moderation policies and technological infrastructure. As the platform continues to face these challenges, users and stakeholders are calling for greater transparency and accountability from X’s leadership.
